Murder Folk Nights

MURDER FOLK NIGHTS

*** Murder Folk Nights are a new monthly music series at the Board of Directors gallery, in the spirit of an old-timey community sing-song, dedicated to covering the gamut of extremely morbid material both traditional and popular. ***

Generally, the last Monday of every month, 7-10pm (check site to make sure)
Board of Directors Gallery
1082 Queen St. W.
PWYC

on the internet
http://www.ryankamstra.com/main/murderfolk.html

on the facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=543871829#/group.php?gid=62319464590

* * * there will be a harmonica in G to share, bells, other jinglers, audio crayons and noise makers. Feel free to bring your instrument. Or just something to make noise. Jugs work. Washboards. Pots and pans. Kazoo. Stuff from loot bags that make sounds * * *

Featuring The Murder Folk Scratch Band

Ryan Kamstra & Jeremy Knowles.

As well as Kamstra's World Famous Limeade.

ABOUT *******

Reviews! Reviews!

Sweetie Pie Press - " ryan kamstra's murder folk night at katharine mulherin gallery. great! wonderful! amazing! terrifying! fun! engaging! murderific! pretty!"

Modeled after a Murder Folk Kitchen Party I had at my house in 2008, Murder folk is a self-coined style of folk music where the sentiment and emotive quality grossly exceeds the subject matter, often dealing with subjects of killing your cheating lover, bank robberies, depression-era acts of amoral desperation, disaster capitalism, lewd and unholy courtships, suicide, insanity, bulimia, the dark arts, selling one's soul to the devil, the apocalypse, morbid episodes of unrequited lovesickness, sex sickness, ultraviolence, murderific elisabethan broadsides, anything too much, too little but totally inappropriate and the ever present counter-weight of a dire and vindictive personal deity.

THE IDEA IS I Have Old Timey Sing-Song Sheets and EVERYONE contributes to the band, whether singing, blowing the old jug, shaking the bells, clawing the washinggboard, or loud mumbles "O ya."

THEREFORE, in advance of the night I am actively seeking YOUR REQUESTS FOR SONGS. I already have a pretty fun repertoir: but all your picks will be considered (basically if I can learn them, and in the time allotted, I will). Just reply, AND NUMBER YOUR REQUESTS IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE INCLUDING SONG TITLE AND THE ARTIST WHO PERFORMS THE VERSION YOU ARE THINKING OF. O Yes, I really want to know your favs, but, if asked, you should be able to make the case that your song fits the above detailed criteria of a "Murder Folk Song."

You can also send your request to: murderfolkrequestline@gmail.com. Or ask to be on our regular email list.

I am also looking for guest performers and guest curators. If you have 3-5 murder folk covers of your own, flip us an email!
yours,

scratch kamstra

http://www.ryankamstra.com/main/murderfolk.html

SONGBOOK-TO-DATE (practice up now!)

Bobby Fuller Four – I Fought The Law (and the law won)
** NEW! Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Brecht, Bertolt and Keith Weill (as performed by Darin, Sinatra, Armstrong et al) - Mack the Knife
Bynum, Hal and Roger Bowling - Lucille
Cash, Johnny – Ring of Fire
The Cramps – The Crusher
Carnes, Kim - Bette Davis Eyes
Cave, Nick and PJ Harvy - Henry Lee
** NEW! Cohen, Leonard - Joan of Arc
** NEW! Cohen, Leonard - Story of Issac
** NEW! Connors, Stompin Tom - The Black Donnellys Massacre
** NEW! Connors, Stompin Tom - Jenny Donnelly
** NEW! Cowboy Junkies - To Love is To Bury
Cole, Nat King (As performed by Jane Fonda) - The Ballad of Cat Ballou
Decker, Desmond - Israelites
Denver, John – Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas
** NEW! Dill, Danny and Marijohn Wilkin - Long Black Veil
Dylan, Bob – Ballad of Hollis Brown
Dylan, Bob - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol
** NEW! Dylan, Bob - Hurricane
** NEW! Earle, Steve - Justice in Ontario
Earl, Steve – Tom Ames Prayer
Fleetwood Mac - Storms
** NEW! - 54/40 - One Gun
Fugees – Killing me Softly
Garnett, Gale - Prism
** New! Gentry, Bobbie - Ode to Billy Joe
Gray, Macy – The Letter
Guthrie, Woody – Bollweevil Blues
Haggard, Merle – Mama Tried
Haggard, Merle – Branded Man
Harvy, PJ - Down by the Water
Hawkins', Screaming Jay – I Put a Spell On You
** NEW! Holiday, Billie - Gloomy Sunday
Holiday, Billie – Strange Fruit
Ice Cube – Today Was a Good Day
Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Jonson, Robert – Hellhounds on my Trail
Kelly, R. - Remix to Ignition
** NEW! Kim, Andy - Be My Baby
King, Ben E. - Stand by Me
** NEW! Kingston Trio - Tom Dooley
Kline, Patsy - Crazy
** NEW! Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
** NEW! Lightfoot, Gordon - Sundown
** NEW! Magnetic Fields - I Die
Mark, Carolyn – Another Other Woman
Mcentire, Reba - Fancy
The Mountain Goats – No Children
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Noyes, Alfred - The Highwayman
Prestly, Elvis – Jailhouse Rock
The Pogues – New York Fairy Tale
** NEW! Poppy Family - Evil Grows
** NEW! Pursuit of Happiness - Walking in the Woods
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Reznor, Trent - Hurt (as performed by Mr. Cash)
** NEW! Rheostatics - The Ballad of Wendel Clark
Silbersdorf, Karl + Dick Toops – Delia's Gone
Sinatra, Nancy - Bang Bang
The Stanley Brothers - Little Glass of Wine
** NEW! Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
** NEW! - Traditional - Barbara Allen
Traditional - The Knoxville Girl
Traditional – Run on (Sooner or later God'll Cut You Down)
** NEW The Tragically Hip - 38 years Old
Twain, Shania - Man I Feel Like A Woman (drag shotgun husbandcide remix)
Vallee, Rudy - Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Van Zant, Townes – Pauncho and Lefty
Violent Femmes – Country Death Song
Violent Femmes - Mother of a Girl
** NEW! Vigneault, Gilles - Quand Vous Mourrez De Nos Amours
Wainright III, Louden – The Man Who Couldn't Cry
Waits, Tom - Innocent When You Dream
Waters, Muddy – Hoochie Coochie Man
Zevon, Warren - I Was in the House (when the House Burned Down)

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